CoTwin project kicks off to unlock the potential of transport data sharing

Major industry players, startups and the public sector have joined forces in CoTwin - Collaborative Digital Twins for Smart Mobility - a project aimed at transforming data sharing in the transport industry.  Financed by Vinnova’s FFI initiative and facilitated by MobilityXlab, CoTwin wants to demonstrate the development of a secure platform to share data from trucks and urban infrastructure in a safe and regulatory-compliant way.

Ericsson, Volvo Group, AstaZero, CanaryBit, and the City of Gothenburg will collaborate over the next 12 months in different work packages to create a digital infrastructure, explore new business models, and develop solutions to the challenge of sharing data from vehicles and infrastructure in a safe and efficient way and how to use the data to benefit the society. 

Collaboration is a key element of the project, bringing together diverse expertise and resources to tackle the complex challenges of data sharing.

The use case that will be developed with the City of Gothenburg will take place on Lindholmsalléen street, where a Volvo truck equipped with 5G antennas and onboard cameras will drive. It will capture real-time video of road signs, for example, a 40 km/h speed limit sign. This video stream is securely transmitted via the 5G network to a Northstar/CanaryBit black box, a confidential computing node located at the network edge. Then, the sign content and position will be validated by comparing it against information provided by the City of Gothenburg.

The collaborative aspect of the project will be further enhanced by a hackathon to test the CoTwin environment in later 2025. The event will encourage participants to use the project’s infrastructure and test data to develop solutions that can change society.